Kieran Coughlan
@sortafriends.bsky.social
He/him. Engineer. Vegetarian. Animal lover. Husband. Believer in kindness. CoderDojo Mentor @coderdojoathenry.bsky.social
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Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Don't know exactly why this lifted my spirits as much as it did, but I'll take it.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Don't know exactly why this lifted my spirits as much as it did, but I'll take it.
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Not in a million years could guess where this goes. And it's even hard to know what to feel at the end because... what??!
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Not in a million years could guess where this goes. And it's even hard to know what to feel at the end because... what??!
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
Make no mistake. Those who want to weaken the EU do so because they want to weaken Europe. It doesn't matter how they frame their arguments, this is an attack on every European.
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Make no mistake. Those who want to weaken the EU do so because they want to weaken Europe. It doesn't matter how they frame their arguments, this is an attack on every European.
Trailer for The Magic Faraway Tree has just dropped. I'm a little biased, for family-related reasons, but I really feel that Simon Farnaby, the writer, has captured that Paddington 2 magic again. So delighted for everyone involved.
The Magic Faraway Tree | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Entertainment Film Distributors
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trailer for The Magic Faraway Tree has just dropped. I'm a little biased, for family-related reasons, but I really feel that Simon Farnaby, the writer, has captured that Paddington 2 magic again. So delighted for everyone involved.
Played a few short minutes of Promise Mascot Agency this morning and already charmed by it. When Michi spoke I was "I know that guy!" and indeed it was my old pal Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda).
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Played a few short minutes of Promise Mascot Agency this morning and already charmed by it. When Michi spoke I was "I know that guy!" and indeed it was my old pal Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda).
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Gabriela Michalczuk (Polish, b.2003)
"Final Exams," 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Final Exams," 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gabriela Michalczuk (Polish, b.2003)
"Final Exams," 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Final Exams," 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
I finished The Outer Worlds 2 and I had a good time with it. I'm never really ready for an RPG to end.
I have to shout out to the animators. The hand animations for certain actions, like fixing a mechanical panel or operating a centrifuge, were so entertaining and joyful.
I have to shout out to the animators. The hand animations for certain actions, like fixing a mechanical panel or operating a centrifuge, were so entertaining and joyful.
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I finished The Outer Worlds 2 and I had a good time with it. I'm never really ready for an RPG to end.
I have to shout out to the animators. The hand animations for certain actions, like fixing a mechanical panel or operating a centrifuge, were so entertaining and joyful.
I have to shout out to the animators. The hand animations for certain actions, like fixing a mechanical panel or operating a centrifuge, were so entertaining and joyful.
Started Death by Lightning this evening and, two episodes in, it's so good. All the leads are absolutely magnetic in their roles, but especially Matthew MacFadyen. It's poignant and yet often comic. Highly recommend.
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Started Death by Lightning this evening and, two episodes in, it's so good. All the leads are absolutely magnetic in their roles, but especially Matthew MacFadyen. It's poignant and yet often comic. Highly recommend.
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Stuff like this is tragic for those involved in the development because so many, myself included, will see "Gen AI" and never give this game another look. It's toxic.
TiGames, the developer of rabbit-starring action game Zoopunk - one of the eye-catching trailers in Microsoft's Xbox Game Preview Event yesterday - has defended itself amid allegations of generative AI use. https://bit.ly/3LQskFH
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Stuff like this is tragic for those involved in the development because so many, myself included, will see "Gen AI" and never give this game another look. It's toxic.
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What we consider to be "ancient Egypt" had archeologists for THEIR ancient Egypt
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
What we consider to be "ancient Egypt" had archeologists for THEIR ancient Egypt
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
I have deep love for Blender. Give it a little boost if you can.
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I have deep love for Blender. Give it a little boost if you can.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
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Please donate to ensure Blender stays available for all. I owe them so much, so I just did. Please share and spread the word!
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Please donate to ensure Blender stays available for all. I owe them so much, so I just did. Please share and spread the word!
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A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
I understand when people think that this is going to bounce off Trump too, but know that most of those in power who seem to support him also hate him and fear him. They're just too cowardly to do anything. If the momentum shifts, they'll all turn on him in a heartbeat.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I understand when people think that this is going to bounce off Trump too, but know that most of those in power who seem to support him also hate him and fear him. They're just too cowardly to do anything. If the momentum shifts, they'll all turn on him in a heartbeat.
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Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889
The Epstein Ballroom always and forever.
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Epstein Ballroom always and forever.
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Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.